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Gurga, J (September 2012). Echoes of the Past: Ukrainian Poetic Cinema and the Experiential Ethnographic Mode (PDF) (Ph.D.). University College London (UCL). pp. 189–190
Hilton, Alison. “Threads of Tradition: Design and Meaning in Russian Peasant Clothing and Textile Arts.” Brill, November 15, 2016. https://brill.com/view/journals/expt/22/1/articlep13_2.xml.
Kates, Ariel. “Discovering Yaroslava Surmach Mills, East Villager, Ukrainian, Artist – Village Preservation.” Village Preservation - Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, February 24, 2021. https://www.villagepreservation.org/2018/05/18/yaroslava/.
Meller, Susan. Russian textiles: Printed cloth for the Bazaars of Central Asia. New York: Abrams, 2007.
“Natalya Nesterova: Artist and Academician.” The Museum of Russian Art. Accessed July 5 2025. https://tmora.org/online-exhibitions/a-homespun-life-textiles-of-old-russia/introductionthe-culture-of-cloth/.
Pickering Antonova, “‘Prayed to God, Knitted a Stocking’: Needlework on a Nineteenth-Century Russian Estate”
Rukavichka: The Ukrainian folktale translated into Russian by Elena Blaginina, Moscow-Leningrad:Detgiz (1951, 1953) (16 p., color pictures, a brochure) http://evgenii-rachev.narod.ru/russian/books.html
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Suwyn, Barbara J., and Natalie O. Kononenko. 1997. The Magic Egg and Other Tales from Ukraine. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited.
The Old Man's Mitten": The Ukrainian folktale, Moscow: Foreign Languages Pub. House, (1953) (translated by Irina L'vovna Zheleznova, English). Folktale "Rukavichka" in English: http://evgenii-rachev.narod.ru/english/books.html
The Mitten: An Old Ukrainian Folktale. Illustrated by E. Rachev. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., Inc. (19??)
“This Children’s Book Legend Has Her Own Tour Bus, & We Rode Along.” Romper, December 10, 2019. https://www.romper.com/p/on-the-road-with-jan-brett-19426021.
Tresselt, Alvin (Translator), Yaroslava (Illustrator), E. Rachev (Author)The Mitten: An Old Ukrainian Folktale.. Publisher: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., Inc. (1964).
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Links for Images for Classroom Use
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=ukrainian+wooden+toys&title=Special%3AMediaSearch&type=image
https://www.janbrett.com/newsnotes/mitten_newsnotes2.htm
https://www.readinga-z.com/book.php?id=854
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=vyshyvanka&title=Special%3AMediaSearch&type=image
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Embroidered_Ukrainian_Map.jpg
